The respondents are crucial
Survey research is vulnerable to poorly chosen respondents. The respondents to this survey will be privately recruited industry practitioners with operational responsibilities for managing information security risks. It is critical that they have both skill and responsibility. We are currently targeting:
- Chief Risk Officers and their direct reports
- Chief Information Security Officers and their direct reports
- Selected academicians engaged in field work
- Selected security product vendors’ Chief Scientists or equivalent
Survey responses will be collected electronically using a website. Respondents will be functionally anonymous, i.e., they would log in using credentials of their choosing and can be confident that their responses will not be associated with them in any public manner. Only the core project team would have access, and that on paper only, to knowing the true names of the respondents.
People with an interest in the subject matter of the index may request participation in the survey, and such requests will be evaluated by the core project team to allow participation only by people who have first hand knowledge of the cyber security threats facing the industry.
Publication will commence when 100 respondents are in hand and active; the target survey population is 300.